Staten Island Mental Health Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 135623279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7184422225
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,226,134
- Expenses
- $8,275,543
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FERN ZAGOR LCSW ACSW (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- FERN ZAGOR LCSW ACSW (PRESIDENT &): $286,139 total reported compensation
- ARUNA AGNI MD (PHYSICIAN): $193,223 total reported compensation
- MINI VERTER MD (PHYSICIAN): $178,708 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The simhs is a not-for-profit children's services provider agency, founded in 1895. Our mission is to diagnose and treat emotional, behavioral, organic, and developmental problems; to create and support programs and environments that reduce the risk of disability and advance the optimal development of children; to increase our knowledge of the causes and treatments of mental illness and developmental impairment; and to promote public awareness of, and support for, the value and ability of our services. Each year we serve one-in-ten staten island families; we treat over 5,000 individuals; we conduct 232,000 child and family evaluation and treatment sessions; we deliver services at 21 sites, by 300 professional and support staff; and our volunteers donate over 50,000 hours of service.
What it reported doing in 2018
The chemical dependence: the teen center provides outpatient alcohol/substance abuse treatment programs exclusively for teens and young adults, ages 12 to 21, including family members. The teen center program services include counseling, treatment, support, and training in social skills, in a non-judgmental environment. Clients re-acquire the life skills to learn, work, play and interact optimally without dependence on chemical substances, and gain the insight and ability to grow into responsible, productive adults. The early recognition program is available at the three mental health centers and provides emotional health screening consisting of questions regarding your child's behavior at home and in school. Early identification and treatment of emotional/behavioral problems help children and teens succeed in school and develop positive social relationships at home and within the community. The integrated program provides an educational setting for pre-school children who have been identified with developmental delays with typically developing children. Related services are provided to specific students in accordance with their individual education plan(iep). The youth achieving independence, or safety.net program, was created to bridge the gap between adolescence and young adulthood. It provides assistance for individuals diagnosed with sed and spmi with services including vesid, careers, ged programs, jbfcs adult psychotherapy and medication management, nyc doe, supportive employment, job corps, family health plus, section 8 and other housing subsidy programs, and many others. The co-locator program is a joint project with neighboring richmond university medical center (rumc) with simhs lending their expertise to provide mental health services to children and families of the borough at rumc's new pediatric site. The court involved youth initiative program is a grant to provide behavioral health (mental health and/or substance abuse) services for youths who become involved in the courts within the justice system in all community boards of staten island. The program will identify youths with mental and behavioral health needs as close to the arrest or before and, when indicated, to offer treatment and connect/link the youth and their family to treatment, if not offered directly by this service. The delivery system reform incentive payment (dsrip) program promotes community-level collaboration and focuses on system reform. The dsrip goal is to achieve a 25 percent reduction in avoidable hospital use over five years. Staten island mental health society is participating as a safety net provider, in several of the dsrip projects focusing on system transformation, clinical improvement and population health improvement. All dsrip funds are based on performance linked to achievement of project milestones. The health homes at risk program - or for staten island sicares, is a delivery system reform incentive program (dsrip) initiative implemented by nys as part of the medicaid redesign to reduce avoidable emergency room visits. Simhs was engaged by cbc as one of six care management agencies (cma) to provide care management for this initiative. This program provides care services in the same vain as health homes with certain exceptions; one is eligibility requirement of with one chronic condition, and the second is the longevity or care is 3 months. The health homes program - cbc is the recognized health home and simhs was engaged to provide the care management. The services are provided to clients that have 2 chronic medical conditions. The intensity of services is based on an assessment completed for each client. The assessment is used to determine a client's knowledge and inclination to assess medical services. A client can remain in the program and assessments are required periodically. The developmental disabilities clinic services program supports the provision of article 16 services of the pouch center to 137 eligible individual
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $286K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $745K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
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- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.